Piper, Walter H.; Walcott, Charles; Mager, John N.; … - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 6, pp. 881-888
In many species, young animals learn about various breeding patches in one year and use what they have learned to settle in a promising patch the next. Common loons (Gavia immer) seem good candidates for such prospecting as prebreeders and displaced breeders intrude frequently into breeding...